This website contains significant rare and archive historical material in the form of documents and images, taken from our church archives. In general, we are happy to see such material re-used by others; however, we do ask that when it is re-used, an acknowledgement to the Apostolic Episcopal Church is provided on the webpage in question.

In the past, when we have made such material available, certain individuals of the widest range of churchmanship have used it without acknowledgement in an attempt to support the claims of their “jurisdictions” to historicity and to assert some form of continuity from us. Only those churches and Religious Orders that are in intercommunion with the Apostolic Episcopal Church may validly claim such continuity. Mere succession from one or other of our bishops does not establish ecclesiastical relations with us, nor do we endorse those who make such claims.

“We profess to be a Branch of the Eastern Church and, therefore, a valid branch of the Universal Church, whose Symbol of Faith is the apostolic, eastern confession, and whose Orders through Episcopal Succession are derived from the ancient Eastern episcopate which is traced back to the primitive Church of the East and to the Apostles and to Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Rt. Revd. Arthur Wolfort Brooks (1889-1948); founder of the Apostolic Episcopal Church